Guidelines for the complete Commerce Supervisory Course are presented. The four unit headings in this guide are: Introductory to Supervision, Personnel Management for Supervisors, Individual and Group Performance, and Supervisory Operational Activities. (NF)

A description of the courses and seminars given by the General Management Training Center of the U. S. Civil Service Commission to provide training opportunity for managers working in Washington metropolitan area at all levels of government is given. Categories of courses are: Entry Level Training; Supervisory Training; Management Training;…

The purpose of this Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) awardee sponsored conference was to continue and expand opportunities for leadership development through planning, implementing, and participating in conducting of a professional conference. "Critical Issues in Vocational Education" was the theme of the conference. Each of…

Focus is on opportunities for participant personal growth and development with emphases on: (1) contradictions implicit in values/feelings exploration in an evaluative academic context; (2) conflict between leaders' needs and participants' needs; and (3) the issue of coleadership. (Author/MJB)

Recreational programs involving experience in outdoor activities for groups provide education as well as adventure. (JD)

Argues that the emphasis of staff development programs should be on inservice education rather than inservice training and that an effective staff development program must include leadership training for administrative personnel. (JG)

The study of leadership must be multidisciplinary, and the examination of the link between family and leadership should be a primary concern. (MSE)

Ingredients necessary to forge successful, effective youth-adult partnerships: the conviction that adolescents can make a valuable contribution, long-term commitment to the project, and giving youths a definite organizational role are outlined with reference to the experience of the Youth Participation Project in Nassau County, New York. (JMM)

Presents an eight-step planning model that operationally defines a comprehensive delivery systems approach to campuswide leadership training. Lists four goals of the model: to increase efficiency of leadership training through shared resources, to decrease costs, to provide quality control, and to increase impact of programming effort by creating…

Describes Why Weight, a program to train community leaders to recognize an effective diet plan and prepare leaders to teach it to others. Why Weight successfully used television to train more than 300 community leaders. (JOW)

Marks the 20th year of the League for Innovation in the Community College with a review of its accomplishments in the areas of information technology, leadership development, international education, energy and health education, and special projects. (DMM)

A review of literature about effects of encounter group training on state affect suggest that positive affect increases and negative affect decreases during training. Volunteer subjects were assigned randomly to encounter groups and were administered the Affect Rating Scale before, during, and subsequent to the groups. Results generally support…

The authors describe development of a model useful for teaching political skills in the management curriculum. The model contains two dimensions relating to (1) the skill of "reading" an organization's politics and (2) the skills that individuals carry that predispose them to act in a certain way. (Author/CH).

The Fall River Institute for Leadership was established in 1984 to aid administrators in learning about recent studies, programs, and practices in the field of leadership development and to help Fall River's 102 administrators refine their leadership skills. This article provides an overview of the institute's program. (MT)

The Akron Public Schools conduct three interrelated programs for principals to ensure school improvement. They are Administrative Supervision Workshops, /I/D/E/A/ Principals Inservice Program, and Operation Curriculum for School Improvement. The programs, and how they overlap, are described. (MT)